Affordable and readily available, Red Heart is the yarn brand that many knitters, including me, used the first time we picked up a pair of needles. I was surprised to see a pitch from them land in my ...

For those with two left thumbs, fiber arts might seem like an impossible craft. Crocheting, knitting, sewing, embroidering, weaving and quilting all require a certain degree of hand-eye coordination.

There are chunky knits, and then there are CHUNKY KNITS. Olie Designs’ Amy Stewart has just hoisted her knitting needles out of her bag, and rest assured, these are not the dainty little devices your ...

Parkour Kitties Fibers claims to be one of the first hand-dyed yarn businesses in Singapore Mentioning “parkour” to anyone generally evokes a mental image of a particularly athletic individual, ...

Knitting scarves, sweaters and other presents can take a lot of time, money and energy. But there can also be a deeper cost: hurt feelings. By Britta Lokting Cydney Alvarez, a fabric developer in ...

Hard times are good times for the knitting business. After 9/11, the craft saw a huge boom. Knitting shops -- heck, knitting cafes, in some cities -- sprang up and a veritable industry of knitting ...